Integral equation methods for particle simulations in creeping flows (Q1963132): Difference between revisions

Hydrodynamic interactions among solid particles, with arbitrary shape, suspended in a slow-viscous flow in a two-dimensional domain, are considered using a complex variable description of the corresponding biharmonic problem (Goursat, Kolossoff, Muskhelishvili), leading to an integral equation (Lauricella, Sherman) which is solved here numerically. The method is illustrated in great detail by means of five examples, giving many figures and discussion of the results obtained.